May 26, 2010

I finally did something with the used bottle caps accumulating in a cup in our kitchen: DIY mid century modern clock magnets.

To make them:Wash and dry the caps, then spray paint them white. Let dry.

Download the clock graphics I made, print, and cut them out. Brush the surfaces of the bottle caps with a bit of Mod Podge or other glue, stick on the clock faces, and brush another coat of Podge over the top. Let dry.

Glue magnets to the back. I used E6000 glue for this, and the magnets are 1-inch disc magnets from a local hobby store. They weren't quite thick enough to fill the bottle cap, so I added a small piece of cardboard as "filler" to make the magnetic surface level with the edge of the cap. Done!

These are so, so, so SO stinking cute! i am totally making these to give away at the next blog event I go to. I hope you don't mind. And I'll be sure to mention the idea came from you! Thanks, I just love your blog and all your ideas.Love from,Greta

Jessica, love this idea! Our whole home is mid cent modern and these will be a great add to the kitchen. My daughter and I may make these on vacation this coming week in FL. I'm sure the guys will provide the beer caps :)

Loved reading about these yesterday on your blog, and now they've just popped into my Facebook homepage, courtesy of CRAFT magazine! You're getting some good press. Nice to see; you do such beautiful work.

Ah ha! Somebody who's not planning to drink gallons of beer to get bottle caps. I found the first several commenters to be very hilarious. Mom, I want you to have a beer party. I would like to see that. And if MP Amy is coming, I'm coming too.

You couldn't have posted these at a better time (time! ha, didn't intend that) because my 8-yr old daughter is practicing telling time on a "REAL" clock. She's having a little trouble with anything after the 30 minute mark. Darn tricky hour hand! ;) She and her friends love bottle caps, so this might be a fun project to do with them!

Hey all - here's an idea. My father-in-law is member at country club, so he just asked the bartender lady to save beer caps for me. She saved a TON in a short amount of time. I just picked through and recycled the ones that were too bent to use, but I got many different caps this way. You could ask a local bar - they'd probably save them for you.

Since I'm mentioning it, we collected gallon jug milk caps for my sister-in-law's preschool...we asked Starbucks and other local coffee shops and they saved the caps for us. In case any of you have brilliant ideas for turning milk jug caps into a fun project??? ; )

I am constantly amazed at the wonderful creativity that people come up with! Thanks for sharing this one. The last time I up-cycled bottle caps was 10 years ago for my Brownie troop, turning them into mini rice bowls for International Day. Keep the creative juices flowing!http://altered-artworks.blogspot.com

it would also be really cute to flip them over, put your graphic inside, coat with Mod Podge dimensional magic and stick the magnet to the back. then you wouldn't have the magnet-thickness problem.Darling! By the way, I think it is simply lovely you are sharing graphics with everyone.

I printed these off the day that you posted them. I have had the paper laying in sight since then, but we moved so there was little time, AND I had no bottle caps. Now, every party I go to, I ask friends to save their bottle caps and I've started to make some! It is so fun and easy, so THANK YOU for the free printout! I will be posting pictures on my blog ASAP.

I LOVE using bottlecaps for art .. I have been doing it alot lately .. love your graphics. We use to do it when I was deployed when we could have some down time. Now I send them to my friends deployed to different parts of this crazy world

I love these! I just made some and glued them together using a glue gun, but the magnet tends to want to stay on the fridge and not on the bottlecap if I move it. Any suggestions for better gluing adhesiveness?

I zoomed the pitures, printed and modpodged/ varnished them on the coasters. They turned out so great that I cann't stop looking them each time I go next to my coffee table. They are great "conversation beginners" too. Great graphiques, I like them a lot! I was looking for them long time. Thank you so much.Hope you get this comment...

Someone asked for other idea using bottle caps - make the magnets but put letters of the alphabet on them. They make great learning tools for the younger kids while you are in the kitchen. The magnets will stick to the fridge and the kids can learn to spell and leave messages with the words they assemble.